Sr DCM, SECR, booked for allegedly molesting booking clerk

Nagpur: Senior divisional commercial manager (DCM), South Eastern Central Railway (SECR), KV Ramana has been booked for allegedly outraging modesty of a booking clerk and also charged with provisions under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The senior railway officer denied the allegations claiming them to be frivolous. Ramana also said he was being framed for no reason.
A 47-year-old booking clerk, promoted few days ago and shifted to Gondia, stated in her police complaint that Ramana had been making undue advances towards her. She alleged that Ramana tried to misbehave with her on phone and also during personal meeting.
The woman stated that Ramana met her during an inspection at a railway station and since then been trying to lure her with indecent proposals for helping in her career.
The woman had first approached the Shanti Nagar police station but later decided to meet the city police top brass when cops refused to register an offence. Shanti Nagar police, following intervention of the top brass, registered the case and referred it to the superintendent of police, Government Railway Police (GRP).
Senior PI KB Uikey of Shanti Nagar police station stated that the alleged undue advances by the concerned officer took place mostly within limits of the railways. “We had received an application from her about two days back. The case isn’t under city police jurisdiction and hence we have sent it to the concerned GRP unit,” he said.
After coming to know about the FIR against him, Ramana said he had called the woman only once to his office and spoke in presence of women personnel. “She was promoted along with 55 others and routinely transferred,” he said.
Ramana stated that he had called the woman as there was a problem between her and the supervisor at office. “There was no other intention but to intervene as a senior,” he said.